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The Sounds of Place
Composers like Charles Ives, Duke Ellington, Aaron Copland, and
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich created works that indelibly commemorated
American places. Denise Von Glahn analyzes the soundscapes of
fourteen figures whose \"place pieces\" tell us much about the
nation's search for its own voice and about its ever-changing sense
of self. She connects each composer's feelings about the United
States and their reasons for creating a piece to the music, while
analyzing their compositional techniques, tunes, and styles.
Approaching the compositions in chronological order, Von Glahn
reveals how works that celebrated the wilderness gave way to music
engaged with humanity's influence--benign and otherwise--on the
landscape, before environmentalism inspired a return to nature
themes in the late twentieth century.
Wide-ranging and astute, The Sounds of Place explores
high art music's role in the making of national myth and
memory.
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Music and the Skillful Listener
For Denise Von Glahn, listening is that special quality afforded women who have been fettered for generations by the maxim \"be seen and not heard.\" In Music and the Skillful Listener, Von Glahn explores the relationship between listening and musical composition focusing on nine American women composers inspired by the sounds of the natural world: Amy Beach, Marion Bauer, Louise Talma, Pauline Oliveros, Joan Tower, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Victoria Bond, Libby Larsen, and Emily Doolittle. Von Glahn situates \"nature composing\" among the larger tradition of nature writing and argues that, like their literary sisters, works of these women express deeply held spiritual and aesthetic beliefs about nature. Drawing on a wealth of archival and original source material, Von Glahn skillfully employs literary and gender studies, ecocriticism and ecomusicology, and the larger world of contemporary musicological thought to tell the stories of nine women composers who seek to understand nature through music.
Denise Von Glahn explores the relationship between listening and musical composition focusing on nine American women composers inspired by the sounds of the natural world: Amy Beach, Marion Bauer, Louise Talma, Pauline Oliveros, Joan Tower, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Victoria Bond, Libby Larsen, and Emily Doolittle. Von Glahn situates \"nature composing\" among the larger tradition of nature writing and argues that, similar, works of these women express deeply held spiritual and aesthetic beliefs about nature. Drawing on a wealth of archival and original source material, Von Glahn skillfully employs literary and gender studies, ecocriticism and ecomusicology, and contemporary musicological thought to tell the stories of these composers who seek to understand nature through music.
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